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#OTD 2015 Janet L. Norwood d (b 11 Dec 1923)🇺🇸 #ASA_Fellow 1974. Honorary Fellow @RoyalStatSoc, @AmStatPres 1989 (6th ♀️) vice-president of ISI @IntStat. First ♀️ Commissioner of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics under 2 US presidents 1/4
#OTD 1936 Edgar Sydenstricker d (b 15 Jul 1881) #ASA_Fellow 1922. An overlooked pioneer of #statistical_epidemiology & health economics, esp income-related health inequalities. Appointed 1st statistician US Public Health Service 1915. 1/5
OTD 1964 Samuel S. Wilks d (b 17 June 1906)🇺🇸 #ASA_Fellow 1940, #AmStatPresident 1950. Called the “Statesman of Statistics”. Best known for editing with Walter Shewhart Wiley ‘Series in Statistics’ that “helped change statistics from a discipline with a few isolated books.. 1/3
@HOS_ASA is saddened to hear of the passing on 3 Mar of Barbara Everitt Bryant (b Apr 1926)🇺🇸 #ASA_Fellow 1998, first woman to head the @uscensusbureau 1989-1993. Best known for endorsing statistical methods for adjusting 1990 Census figures for undercount of minorities. 1/2
#OTD 2017 Dorothy P. Rice d (b 11 Jun 1922)🇺🇸 #ASA_Fellow 1977 for major contributions to #health_statistics. Director National Center for Health Statistics 1976-1982; development #National_Death_Index. Pioneering research on aging & #cost_of_illness led to creation of Medicare
#OTD 1919 Nathan Mantel b (d 25 May 2002) 🇺🇸#ASA_Fellow 1962 Best known for the logrank test for #survival_data, Mantel–Haenszel test & odds ratio for contingency table analysis. He once said statistics is “math for something”: at NCI his major contributions to epidemiology 1/3
#OTD 1864 Kate Claghorn b (d 22 May 1934) 🇺🇸First ♀️#ASA_Fellow 1918 (& the only one until 1937) & 1st to publicly receive PhD degree from Yale 1896. Best known as signatory on #NAACP founding document & prescient work on social statistics, esp immigration, workplace ..1/3
OTD 1916 Regina Loewenstein b (d 16 May 1999) 🇺🇸Public health statistician at Columbia #ASA_Fellow 1976 Co-founder #ASA Caucus for Women In Statistics @cwstat 1971. The Regina Loewenstein Prize "for Academic Excellence in Health Policy and Management” is given in her honour. 1/2
#OTD 1919 Oscar Kempthorne b (d 15 Nov 2000) 🇬🇧#ASA_Fellow 1952 Best known for #design_of_experiments & #genetic_statistics. Strongly promoted randomization & considered ANOVA to be “one of the most powerful statistical techniques”. Part of the Rothamsted group 1941-6; 1/3
OTD 1915 Mollie Orshansky b (d 18 Dec 2006)🇺🇸#ASA_Fellow 1974. Best known for Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, the first US govt-accepted measures of income adequacy when at the Social Security Administration. Fun fact: OPT was featured on the TV show "The West Wing" although 🧵
OTD 1886 Lowell J Reed b (d 29 Apr 1966)🇺🇸 #ASA_Fellow 1927, #ASA_President 1951, Hon Fellow #RSS. Best known for Pearl-Reed-Verhulst population growth model, Reed-Merrell life-table, & Frost-Reed model, called “one of the most influential models in epidemiological reasoning”🧵
OTD Aryness Joy Wickens b 1901 (d 2 Feb 1991)🇺🇸 #ASA_Fellow 1936 (2nd ♀️) #ASA_President 1952, Acting Commissioner of Labor Statistics. One of the developers of US Consumer Price Index. In her #ASA Presidential Address she said that statistical training lacked the idea that 1/3
OTD 1917 David Finney b (d 12 Nov 2018) CBE FRS #ASA_Fellow 1951 Pres #RSS 1973 Worked w Fisher at UCL and Yates at #Rothamsted. Inaugurated 3 statistics depts at Aberdeen BARC & Edinburgh. Pioneered statistical methods of pharmacovigilance, biological assay & probit analysis 1/3
OTD 1986 William (Bill) G Hunter d (b 27 Mar 1937) 🇺🇸#ASA_Fellow 1979 A brilliant teacher of design of experiments, co-author of THE classic book #Statistics_for_Experimenters’. George Box called him “an innovator and catalyst for quality improvement” 1/2
OTD 1915 Lila Elveback b (d 30 Apr 2004) #ASA_Fellow 1970 "for her outstanding role in advancing the statistical quality of research at the Mayo Clinic ...". One of the founding directors of the American College of Epidemiology 1979
OTD 2000 Oscar Kempthorne d (b 31 Jan 1919) UK #ASA_Fellow 1952, Hon Fellow #RSS, Pres #IBS 1961,elected #AAAS. Part of the #Rothhamsted group 1941-6. Founded "Iowa school" of experimental design and ANOVA. Tireless promoter of randomisation. 1/2
Joseph L Fleiss (13 Nov 1937-12 Jun 2003)🇺🇸 #ASA_Fellow 1973, President #ENAR 1986. Best known for his intraclass correlation coefficient Fleiss' kappa for assessing rater reliability, and work in mental health statistics. 1/2
OTD 1912 Jerome Cornfield b (d 17 Sep 1979) 🇺🇸#ASA_Fellow 1951, #AmStatPresident 1974. Did not finish grad school but made major contributions to likelihood, Bayesian inference, multiple logistic regression, & esp clinical trial design. Major role in establishing causal link..1/2
Martin B Wilk (18 Dec 1922-19 Feb 2013) 🇨🇦 #ASA_Fellow 1962, OC 1999. ‘. Chief Statistician of Canada 1980-5, “the best statistician in Canada’s history”. Best known for the Shapiro-Wilk test (1965; developed with Samuel Shapiro) & ...1/2
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